Brassiere



Oct. 2, 1956 w. ROSENTHAL ET AL BRASSIERE Filed Dec. 22, 1953 M 0 M E V W.

ATTORNEY United States Patent Office 2,764,761 Patented Oct. 2, 1956 BRASSIERE William Rosenthal, Bayville, N. Y., and Ernest Silvani, Roselle, N. J., assignors to Maiden Form Brassiere Company, Inc., New York, N. Y.

Application December 22, 1953, Serial No. 399,694

2 Claims. (Cl. 242) This invention relates to a brassiere and more particularly to a brassiere having a stretchable gore piece disposed between the breast receiving pockets, thereby permitting divergent movement of the brassiere cups from one another.

It is an object of this invention to provide a brassiere having a wire reinforcement therein.

It is a further object of this invention to provide a strapless wire reinforced brassiere having a triangular segment of stretchable material disposed between the breast pockets thereof.

It is a further object of this invention to provide a strapless brassiere having a U-shaped wire frame substructure secured to a U-shaped fabric base non-stretchable segment.

These and other objects of this invention will become apparent upon reading the following disclosure taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawing in which:

Fig. 1 is a front view of the brassiere,

Fig. 2 is a rear view of the brassiere,

Fig. 3 is a section view taken on line 3-3 of Fig. l and showing the foam rubber material used in the construction of the breast pockets, and

Fig. 4 is a view taken on line 4-4 of Fig. 1 and transversely through the wire reinforcement.

Referring to the drawings, a brassiere is provided with a pair of cup sections 1 and 2. Each of these cup sec tions 1 and 2 has a substantially circular breast receiving pocket made up of segments 3 and 4. The segments 3 and 4 are stitched together along a substantially horizontally disposed medial line 5. These sections. 3 and 4 are made of comfortable perforated foam rubber sheetlike material 4x.

The top of the brassiere is framed by a relatively narrow top band, formed of two arcuate sections 1x and 2x, these sections being merged together at the center of the brassiere. A -U-shaped wire reinforcement 6 is disposed about the base of each of the cup sections 1 and 2 to a point in spaced relationship to the medial line 5. A substantially U-siraped base segment 7 of non-stretchable textile material is disposed beneath said cup sections 1 and 2 and secured by means of threads to said cup sections and about said wire reinforcement 6. The base segments 7 are secured together at a medial line of juncture 8 disposed between the breast pockets 1 and 2. A triangular piece 9 of horizontally stretchable material is disposed between the segments 7 of each of the pockets 1 and 2. The triangular piece 9 is preferably of an isoceles triangular shape and is secured along the legs 10 of the triangle to the inwardly disposed substantially vertical edges 11 of the segments 7. The triangular stretchable material 9 is disposed between the point of juncture 8 and in close proximity to the base line of the 2 brassiere, said base line being in line with the base of the cup sections 1 and 2. The bottom of the triangular piece 9, being unsecured to any material, is freely extendable in a divergent manner, thereby permitting lateral movement of the cup sections 1 and 2 away from one another.

The wire reinforcement 6 is encircled by textile tape material 12 and a strip or runner of foam rubber 13 is disposed within a flannel fabric 14 with the folded edges of the flannel fabric being secured by means of stitches to the tape 12 and through the foam rubber 4x.

The strip or runner of foam rubber is disposed along the length of the wire on that side of the wire disposed toward the body of the wearer of the brassiere, thereby protecting the wearer from harsh contact or discomfort from the wire. The pocket sections 3 and 4 are covered with decorative textile material 15 to present a pleasing frontal appearance to the brassiere. A side panel 16 is secured to each of the cup sections 1 and 2 along the exterior lateral edge 17 of the substantially U-shaped segment 7.

This invention has been described by means of an illustrative embodiment, but the functional concept of the invention is of greater scope than this embodiment and is that of the scope of the claims appearing hereinafter.

The above invention accomplishes the object of this invention which is to have a brassiere very low in structure and thus adapted to be worn with very low necked garments. The foam rubber material in this strapless brassiere, with the round wire disposed therebeneath,

prevents the textile material disposed outwardly of the said foam rubber from wrinkling without the use of stays. The perforations in the rubber are for the purpose of allowing air and body heat to'pass' therethrough, and thereby prevent overheating of the body of the wearer.

Having described our invention, what we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is as follows:

1. A strapless brassiere comprising a cup-receiving frame, said frame being formed of two horizontally disposed, relatively narrow arcuate top band sections, said sections being merged together at the frame center, two substantially U-shaped base segments of non-stretchable material, said segments having inner legs rising to meet said top band sections at the frame center, said legs being inclined toward each other to provide between them a triangular space, an elastic member substantially filling said triangular space and joined to said legs, and back extending bands for attachment at the back of the wearer, two cups of perforated foam rubber carried by said frame,each U-shaped base segment being disposed beneath one of said cups and secured thereto, and a wire reinforcement extending along the base of each cup and from the top band of the frame to the inner margin of the appropriate U-shaped base segment, each said wire reinforcement being disposed within cushioning material.

2. A brassiere constructed in accordance with claim 1, in which each foam rubber cup is divided into two sections by a thread jointure extending across the apices of the cups longitudinally of the br-assiere.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,508,703 Becker May 23, 1950 2,535,864 Plehn Dec. 26, 1950 2,579,545 Cadous Dec. 25, 1951 2,622,245 Lances Dec. 23, 1952 2,673,981 Popp Apr. 6, 1954 

